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PORTFOLIO
GRAD II FALL 2015
F 2014 / S 2015
JOHN LEANO
XYZ
University of Illinois at Chicago | Arch 551 | Fall 2014 | Instructors: Kelly Bair (C.) w. Thomas Kelley
TWIN PAVILION
UNDERSIDE
CNC-milled polyurethane foam
COLLAGE
BAS RELIEF:
THE DOS BOOK MUSEUM + LIBRARY
ELEVATION I
ELEVATION II
SECTION I
Beginning in its conventional accomodation on shelves and
becoming a decorative profile, placed on a pedestal and ultimately
a pile of meaningless objects...
SECTION II
the transition of the book from tool to art is expressed in the
programmatic transition from bottom-half library to upper-half
museum.
LIBRARY PLAN
MUSEUM PLAN
F 2015
A
HOUSE
FOR
ACTIVITY
This project re-examines domestic life for
a small family at Indiana Dunes National
Lakeshore through a combination of fixed and
mobile furniture. Mobile furniture plays
a literally active role for the family furniture capable of keeping up through
expediency, convenience and portability.
The tension between a modernist free plan
enabled by structural concrete columns and
a postmodernist floor manipulation creates
the setting for a mixture of events that
encourages a more open and fluid lifestyle
- the flowing, coincidence and intersection
of activity in an uninterrupted space
devoid
of
partition
and
corridor.
Caster and rollable furniture activate
pocketed spaces while the flat perimeter
around
the
pockets
accomodate
fixed
domestic utilities; i.e. the kitchen,
bathroom and general storage. The parents'
and child's bedrooms are adjoined at the
rear of the home, allowing wide views
of the forest through floor-to-ceiling
shelf-windows. Floor portholes allow
for viewing the zen garden beneath the
home,
while
two
skylights
minimally
illuminate
interior
intersections.
The
front
entry
is
approached
via
ramp off the driveway, which continues
beneath the home into a two-car garage.
Wood paneling across the faade lends
material
contrast
to
the
industrial
homogeneity of the floor and roof slabs.
Meanwhile underneath, a zen garden of
stepped gravel beds and a minimal selection
of ferns complements the home's interior
- allowing for a contemplative break
from the activity taking place inside.
ROOF PLAN
GARDEN PLAN
SECTION: WEST
SECTION: EAST
ELEVATION: WEST
ELEVATION: EAST
ELEVATION: NORTH
ELEVATION: SOUTH
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